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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis
I didn't follow the season much, but, yes, that was an obnoxious jury. Stop talking? Immature Christian? Eeny, meeny, miny mo? One must wonder if three white people would have been treated with such derision.
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Eh, I really believe race had little to do with it. Pathetic delusions of grandeur, huge bunches of sour grapes, and bipolar disorder (hi Lisi!) were the order of the day. Completely painful to watch.
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I liked Yau from what I saw of him, but I don't see what everyone's so upset about. Usually, we don't like to see people acting secure at tribal council because of some deal they made. Yau must have had an incredible reservoir of good will built up for his deal not to be seen for what it was: an attempt to buy success in the game. Buy with a capital $$$.
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Oh, no one saw it as anything
but that. But that was what everyone respected about Yau, he played the game out in the open. He made no bones about the fact that he was playing the game to win. He did it respectfully and politely, but he was playing and playing hard. Despite the childish tantrum displays, I'd say that this season more than any other the players were willing to look at it as just a game and not get ridiculously pissed off that someone played it well and had to deceive and out maneuver them. The idiots who were pissed were probably only pissed because they thought they were smarter than Dreamz. Which, I can say quite honestly, they weren't. You've gotta be pretty dumb if Dreamz and Rocky make you look like immature idiots.
As for Dreamz, I said pretty much exactly what Yau said about two minutes before he said it. Dreamz isn't a complete idiot, he clearly is able to assess a situation and know what's going on around him. He just lacks the critical thinking ability to process that information and use it to his advantage. He can't think that 2nd or 3rd step ahead.
So when he said that he really never expected to have to make the decision to give it to Yau or not, I believe him. I'm pretty sure his thought process was, "I get a car? Oh hell yes, deal!" Shortly thereafter it was, "Oh wait, that was kinda bad...I need to get rid of Yau now, and here's how I do it." And it wasn't until that didn't work that he even
thought about the moral dilemna of whether to break the deal or not. So while I don't believe that he was truly playing Yau the whole time, I am perfectly willing to believe that he neither planned on keeping nor breaking his word when he initially made the deal as that kind of forethought just doesn't enter into it for him.